Kevin Anderson downs Sebastian Ofner 7-5 7-6(3) in the 2nd round in Newport on Wednesday. Anderson will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Jack Sock in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 32 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this competition. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 2nd round in 2008. Here you can see his history at this event.
Anderson added to his prize money $ 5,565 after conquering this match. He has won already $ 15,580 after this win. If he wins the next match, Anderson will add $ 7,795 to his earnings to get in total $ 23,375 in total.
Highlights Kevin Anderson vs. Sebastian Ofner Hall of Fame Open – Newport
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:32
At the end of the match, Kevin scored 74 points vs. the Austrian’s 63.
Anderson
The South African served extremely well to win 97% of the points (30/31) behind his first serve, and he won 70% points (23/33) on his second serve. Kevin blasted 18 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Anderson didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that he conquered (1/2).
Ofner
On the other side, the Austrian wasn’t able to conquer any break point. However, The South African was just to good and Sebastian had no opportunity to win this match.
After this match, the head to head between Anderson and Ofner is 1-0 for Kevin.
Draw and next match H2H: Kevin Anderson vs. Jack Sock – stats
Anderson will come up against Sock in the quarter.
This will be the 5th time that Kevin Anderson and Jack Sock play each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Anderson and Sock (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.
The last time that they played each other, Sock won 7-63 6-3 in the semifinal in Houston back in 2015.
Live score progression and stats
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Kevin conquered in the 11th game (6-5) before ultimately winning the set (7-5).
Kevin won the set after he broke Sebastian in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 4th (2-2) game. Ofner tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 9th (4-5) game. However, Kevin refused to give way to eventually clinch the set at the following tiebreak at 3.
Tiebreak
The South African won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 9th (6-3) and 10th (7-3) point.
The South African won the tiebreak 7-3 after he conquered a decisive 5-3 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3
Tennis Scores in Newport
- Jack SockSock – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Maxime CressyCressy – Sam QuerreyQuerrey (6-4 2-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Denis KudlaKudla (6-3 4-6 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Yuichi SugitaSugita (6-0 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Kevin AndersonAnderson – Sebastian OfnerOfner (7-5 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Ivo KarlovicKarlovic (7-65 4-6 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Jason JungJung – Tennys SandgrenSandgren (6-2 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Peter GojowczykGojowczyk – Vasek PospisilPospisil (6-3 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jack SockSock – Kevin AndersonAnderson (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Maxime CressyCressy (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alexander BublikBublik – Jason JungJung (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jenson BrooksbyBrooksby – Peter GojowczykGojowczyk (0-0) – H2H details and stats
